This I Believe

He is untouchable to man and greater than any man that ever walked the earth. He was nailed to the cross and died for our sins. The man that I believe in is God! Needless to say, I did not always know about him and I definitely had my doubts about him. Who would have thought that one day my doubts would be erased?

I grew up in a church going family, I hardly missed a Sunday. As a child I did not know what the preacher was talking about. All I knew was when he said something that everyone liked they shouted; Amen! At the end of the sermon always had a million questions for my grandma such as: How do you know that he is real and how does someone die and then come back to life? I was so confused! She would say; One day you will know, something is going to assure you that he is real as long as you believe.

I had gotten older, still going to church, and still had that little piece of doubt about God. Something happened to me that I never would have imagined. I had fallen asleep at a friend’s house and suddenly woke up. I knew that I had to get home because my curfew was approaching and I did not want to get into any trouble. As I was driving down the road I fell asleep behind the wheel. While I was sleeping, I managed to drive into a ditch and come up across a drive way. I woke up when I was flying in the air in between two signs. My first instinct was to get my seatbelt off as quickly as possible. Thank god I was in shock and could not take my hands off of the wheel. I flipped in the air and landed upside down.

As soon as I landed there was a boy pulling at my locked door with all his might. He finally got the door open and helped me out. As I got out looked at the car and started to cry. He gave me a hug and said that everything would be alright. I looked at him and said thanks for helping me but my car. I started to cry even harder. Not because I was in pain or anything but because my car was a total loss. I heard someone yelling as they were running towards me. It was my cousin who was driving behind me the whole time and saw the accident happen. I sat in her car while I was waiting for the ambulance to arrive. I believe in god because I walked out of the hospital with nothing but whip-lash and bruises on my legs.

I believed that god sent an angel down to help me. I never saw that boy again. My car was smashed in, and glass was everywhere. I believe in god because almost everything inside the car was still intact; my seats, my phone and glasses were not broken, and the rear view mirror was still in place. This experience made all doubt that I had go away.

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This week’s essay

Growing up in the former Yugoslavia, lawyer Djenita Pasic enjoyed the peace of her religiously diverse country. But after the fall of communism and the outbreak of the Bosnian War, Pasic was forced to reevaluate her ideas about religion and tolerance. Click here to read her essay.